Thermal Delight in Architecture (The MIT Press)

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Our thermal environment is as rich in cultural associations as our visual, acoustic, olfactory, and tactile environments. This book explores the opportunity of the usage of thermal qualities as an expressive element in building design. Until moderately recently, building technology and design has favored high-energy-consuming mechanical methods of neutralizing the thermal environment. It has not responded to the quite a lot of ways that people use, remember that, and care about the thermal environment and how they associate their thermal sense with their other senses. The hearth fire, the sauna, the Roman and Japanese baths, and the Islamic garden are discussed as archetypes of thermal delight about which rituals have developed — reinforcing bonds of affection and ceremony forged in the thermal experience. Not only is thermal symbolism now obsolete but the modern emphasis on central heating systems and air conditioning and hermetically sealed buildings has in truth damaged our thermal coping and sensing mechanisms. This book for the solar age could lend a hand change all that and open up for us a new dimension of architectural experience. As the price of energy continues to skyrocket, alternatives to using mechanical force should be developed to meet our thermal needs. A major alternative is using passive solar energy, and the book will provide those interested in solar design with a reservoir of ideas.

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